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Available reporting shows multiple, documented incidents in 2025 where federal immigration agents detained people later identified as U.S. citizens — including high-profile cases in Minneapolis and Ch...
Available reporting shows that a large and growing share of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had no criminal convictions — national analyses find roughly one-third to three-quarters of arrests involved ...
Reporting from multiple advocacy groups and news outlets documents directives and targets tied to higher arrest volumes for ICE since 2025, including per-field-office and national daily goals reported...
Donald J. Trump’s record on pardons is unusually concentrated in two forms: hundreds of individually named pardons across his presidencies plus at least two mass proclamations that extend clemency to ...
Reported arrest rates show large racial disparities: one set of figures says Black people were arrested at 20.4 per 1,000 versus 9.4 per 1,000 for White people — roughly double — and other sources rep...
Multiple contemporary news reports and legal analyses record that Donald J. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York, making him the first U.S. president to b...
State-by-state ICE arrest rates in 2025 varied sharply: Texas emerges as the epicenter with the highest per‑capita arrest rates in multiple analyses, while some West Coast areas—most notably Northern ...
ICE’s recent actions under the 2025 administration include a sharp rise in detentions (about a 70% increase to almost 66,000 in detention by November 2025) and a large jump in people accepting “volunt...
Public data from ICE and independent aggregators shows conflicting but converging patterns: ICE’s official reporting and prior-year trends emphasize arrests of people with convictions, citing figures ...
Donald Trump issued roughly 237 pardons and commutations during his first presidency (2017–2021), including 144 pardons and about 93 commutations depending on counting method cited in Justice Departme...
ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) focuses on administrative arrests of people it believes are removable and also can execute criminal warrants; historically many arrested have convictions...
National datasets consistently show racial disparities in arrests, convictions, and incarceration: for example, analyses find substantially higher arrest and incarceration prevalence for Black men by ...
ICE’s recent operations have led to dozens of arrests in high-profile sweeps — for example, a Dec. 5 Arizona operation executed 16 federal search warrants and resulted in 46 arrests tied to alleged im...
ICE’s own and FOIA-derived datasets show thousands of interior enforcement arrests in 2025 — frequently exceeding 1,000 a day at times — and large shares of those arrested lack a criminal conviction, ...
Black and Hispanic people face the largest and most consistent racial disparities in arrests and convictions for drug offenses and for low‑level “quality‑of‑life” crimes—disparities that cannot be ful...
ICE’s own and independent analyses show that a majority of people booked into ICE custody are arrested after being identified in local jails and prisons (the so‑called Criminal Alien Program) rather t...
Arrest rates calculated per 100,000 noncitizen residents are numerically far higher than arrest rates calculated per 100,000 total residents because the noncitizen population is a much smaller denomin...
Trump’s most tangible criminal-justice legacy was the bipartisan First Step Act, which produced measurable reductions in the federal prison population through sentence-shortening and early-release mec...
ICE does detain U.S. citizens, though agency officials deny deliberate deportation of citizens; multiple 2025 investigations and tallies document at least hundreds of citizen detentions and numerous r...
Deportations rose sharply in 2024–2025, with fiscal‑year 2024 removals reaching 271,484 according to aggregated reporting cited in secondary analyses , and government dashboards for ICE removals updat...